Students need to be able to create a thesis statement when they are writing a persuasive essay. All too often they can collect evidence about specific topic, but they cannot construct a statement that enables them to present their evidence in a clear and compelling manner. Evidence has no value unless it is supported with an unambiguous thesis statement. After students have created a thesis statement they can create an outline for their persuasive essay. In this way students have a building block with which to write a cogent essay.

Students will be able to collect evidence about a character in graphic organizer.

Students will be able to use a template to create a thesis statement about a character.

Students will be able to use evidence collected in a graphic organizer about a character to create a thesis statement with the template.

Students will be able to use a template to create an outline for a persuasive essay.

Students will be able to use their outline created with the template to write a persuasive essay. 

 

Characterization Graphic Organizer, Thesis Builder, Rubric.

Students will use fiction that they  have read in class to create a thesis statement and an outline in order to write a persuasive essay about a character. 

 

Students will use a  characterization graphic organizer to collect evidence about a character.  They will then use a thesis statement template to create a thesis statement about a character. 

 

Students will also create an outline with a template so  that they can write a persuasive essay about a character.

A rubric for an essay will be used as an assessment tool both by the students for self-editing and as the same assessment tool by the LMS.

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